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#193 — Meditation in an Emergency

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Mindfulness - A Basic Awareness of What Your Hands Are Doing

A basic awareness of what you're doing with your hand is, in many cases, the only tool you have to keep you and others safe. Many of us grimly laughed at the video of the public health spokesperson who, at a press conference, was insisting on the importance of no longer touching one's face in public. I think i tweeded at the time, how can we avoid touching our faces if we have no idea what our hands are doing? That really is a problem. If you don't take sufficient care with your hygiene here, you literally put the lives of others at risk. So i'm speaking to everyone. And i am speaking to those of you who understand the

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